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Melting moments

Melting investigation planner


Name: _________________________________ Date: _________________________

Other members of your team: __________________________________________

What are you going to investigate? What do you think will happen?
Explain why.
What happens to

___________________________________

when we change

___________________________________?

To make the test fair, what things (variables) are you going to:
Change? Measure /Observe? Keep the same?

What equipment does the team need?


• role wristbands or badges for Director, • _____g of the broken chocolate
Manager, Speaker
• 2 plastic resealable bags
• each team member’s science journal • pen
• _____g of the full piece of chocolate • access to a warm place or heat source

What will the team do?


1 Break one piece of chocolate into many smaller pieces.
2 Draw each piece of chocolate on recording results
section of the planner.
3 Write which chocolate you will put in the bag.
4 Put the chocolate in the labelled bags.
5 Put the bags in a warm place.
6 Check the bags every 10 minutes.
7 Record how long it takes for each chocolate to melt.

Resource sheet 4
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Melting moments

Melting investigation planner


Recording results
Draw the full piece of chocolate: Draw the broken pieces of chocolate:

It took _______________minutes to melt. It took _______________minutes to melt.

Displaying results Present your results in a graph


Title of graph: _____________________________________________________
Number of minutes

Full piece of chocolate Broken up chocolate

Discussing results What did our whole class find?


Question: What happens to the melting time when we change the size of the pieces
of the chocolate?

Claim: ________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Evidence: ______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Resource sheet 4

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